Questions posted in the wrong categories...?

I think people categorize wrong because Yahoo! Answers doesn't really give a training course on how to use this site. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoPW7... When I see a question categorized wrong, I tell the user it could go better elsewhere. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aoiqh... If everyone did this, we wouldn't have this problem anymore. Yahoo! Answers has a rule about categorizing questions right but they don't seem to enforce it.

Usage Rules #5:

http://answers.yahoo.com/info/community_guidelines

It does ask for a category but I've noticed myself putting alot of my questions in "Other" b/c for some reason I feel like more people look there or I don't want a generalized answer, such as a political question, I may not want a bunch of politicians answering it I may just want a general idea of people's answers.

Maybe that's what other people are doing too?

I can post the same question in Other and Food and get more answers on a food question in the "other" category. I don't know why.

The ask your question does require you to chose a category. It won't let you ask until you've chosen one of these.

And when you talked about the main page it goes.

Answer, Discover (rate answers) and Pick (vote for answers)

When you click on these it goes by most recently asked. WHen you click on one of these categories you can click on the left side of the screen for a certain category you'd like to answer, rate or vote on. Hope this helps.

I use the "Ask" box that you speak of, and yes, after I ask my question, I am required to choose a category and then subcategory before posting my question.

and the main page goes...Ask Answer Discover-- there is no Pick option unless you click on home and scroll down the page...

The miscategorized questions has nothing to do with a glitch or bug with the site. This is where people chose where to put their questions. They have to chose a place to post their question, if it is left blank it will not be posted. With that in mind, I have no idea why a person would knowingly post their question in the wrong place. We encourage people to post correctly so that their question will get the best answers possible. However, they ultimately make the decision.

Hope this helps to explain things.

Katie

If I had my druthers, there would be a "Report Abuse" category for wrong category. I have had several people help me with questions, and I try to be helpful when I can. Navigating through the "BS" to get to real questions is quite irksome, given my busy life and limited time.

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Maybe they post them in wrong categories on purpose, or they don't care, or they are stupid...

Maybe they are just lazy and click the mouse on any button.

because they are too stupid or lazy to care...